This is a perfect opening manual that contains a detailed classification. Modern Chess Opening, vol. 5, Semi-Closed Games course is aimed at teaching a student much of the opening and middlegame methods and intricacies through a theoretical section which includes 294 games/lectures.

Each of them illustrates typical plans and methods in the following openings:

· Nimzo-Indian defense· Queen’s Indian defense· Catalan opening.

Each opening variation is supplied with evaluations and characteristic of the key moves. The theoretic material is nicely illustrated by classic games with detailed annotations that demonstrate the principal ideas of each variation for White and Black.

Also program include more than 450 exercises for a user to solve, giving refutations of the wrong moves as well as numerous hints to help you find the correct answer.

The material presented here was prepared by the grandmasters Kalinin and Kalinichenko.